Rooter

Rooter is a small, but potentially useful, client-side routing library with small API that is backed by browser's History API.

Sample usage

Here we will create new instance of router by calling rooter function which can accept optional argument that is id of root DOM element in which all views are going to be rendered. If element is passed smooth transition will be applied on route change.

var router = rooter("app");

To configure type and duration of transition you can use configureTransition method to which you pass plain JavaScript object with effect, time and applyAfter properties. Time should be in milliseconds.

router.configureTransition({
  time: 400,
  effect: "ease-in",
  applyAfter: 200
});

After instantiation we can add routes by calling when method on provided object. It looks like this, also it supports chaining.

router.when("/", function() {
  // custom logic
});

Router also support URL parameters all of which are decoded with browser decodeURIComponent function before being passed to attached handler.

router.when("/user/:id", function(params) {
  console.log(params); // which for example could contain { id: "1" } 
});

Middleware functions are another part of router. They are optional but if you want to add them you can do so by passing an array with desired functions as second argument.

function authenticate() {
  // logic
}

router.when("/profile/:id/edit", [authenticate], function(params) {
  if(authenticated) {
    // proceed
  } else {
    router.redirect("/login");
  }
});

If you want to namespace routes you can use appropriately named namespace method.

router.namespace("user")

To handle 404 pages you can use notFound method by providing to it a custom function. Defaults to empty function.

route.notFound(function() {
  // for instance view.render("notfound");
});

Last step after adding desired routes and setting up error handling is to call start function which will monitor for changes on window.location property.

router.start();

If you want to remove certain route you would call remove method and pass path to it...

router.remove("/secret");

To empty whole object you can call router.flush().